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Provenance:
Private collection, Massachusetts

Literature:
A Brush with History: The Paintings of Morgan Weistling, Vicki Stavig, Blackhammer Press, California, 2018, p. 41.

Morgan Weistling is a storyteller in the same way Norman Rockwell is a storyteller—everything one needs to complete the visual journey is right there in the paint. For portraits, Weistling focuses first on the structure of the face, before filling in the details. “Weistling has many approaches to his paintings and each subject dictates his decisions on how much preliminary drawing will take place. In this case, a portrait, he uses a direct method of working from a fixed spot in the middle and finishing as he works outward,” writes Vicki Stavig in A Brush with History: The Paintings of Morgan Weistling. “The canvas is toned first with an approximate value and temperature of his model. Beginning with the eye sockets, he lays down the foundation by which all further measurements will be made. With no drawing to follow, this method forces him to juggle the many aspects of art (shapes, values, edges and color) at the same time.”

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